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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
I'm not Amazon, I don't know.
I do have first hand knowledge of pedophilia and pedophiles, probably a bit more than you do, and know what makes them tick. you are buying trouble and throwing up false scenarios
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So do I, KK. From both a victim's and a counselor's point of view.
It is true that a book like this is highly unlikely to create the desire.
But the tipping balance of whether or not to act on the desire is subject to the internal struggle of many, if not most, pedophiles: the question of whether or not it really that harmful to the child.
Books like this encourage the pedophile to go with his urges, because they assuage their guilt.
Books like this are also used to convince the child that it is safe and ok.
(For that matter, if you listen to non-pedophiles, a tragic number of them aren't as sure how evil it is, either.)
(And for the record, my position on the current case is only that:
- it is not a breach of the right to free speech, but a matter of business and free expression of values by Amazon and our society
- Amazon was smart to remove the book, but I would have respected them more, had they done it to demonstrate that they had enough depth of perception that they could see the line between non-fiction promotion of pedophilia and all the other false analogies that are so commonly brought up as possible targets if this were pulled.)